'Comedy' video of woman using drugs and criticizing probation officer puts her behind bars
Already on probation in a credit-card fraud case and unauthorized to drive, a Massachusetts woman who enjoys making entertainment videos and posting them online created a doozy.
Obtained by Natick police, it reportedly shows Allison Voner using both heroin and cocaine while driving and complaining about her probation officer, authorities said. The video seems to have been filmed outside a courthouse, reports the Metro West Daily News.
“I just saw the most incriminating video I’ve ever seen,” said Framingham District Court Judge Douglas Stoddart, after viewing the video in chambers on Friday along with a prosecutor, defense counsel and a probation officer. The video was not shown in open court but was described by probation officer Elisa Currie.
Stoddart ordered Voner, who was arrested Thursday afternoon, held without bond for violating her probation in the Natick credit-card fraud case. He also ordered her held on a Brookline District Court warrant in another unspecified case and set bond at $5,000 in a heroin-possession case.
The 23-year-old’s lawyer, John Daly Jr., argued to no avail that the video was a parody. “She frequently Facebooks out entertaining videos,” he told the judge after Stoddart had already ruled. “It was meant as an entertaining video only. It was comedy.”
Stoddart said the video was “entertaining, as well as tragic,” but did not change his ruling.
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